Good afternoon and I am Colby.

Today, my topic that I will be talking about will be the ornamentations used to decorate The Great Pyramid of Giza. Firstly, I will talk about The Sphinx. What is a Sphinx anyways? Well, a Sphinx is actually a mythical creature with, AS A MINIMUM, the body of a lion and a human head. There are many variations of the sphinx besides from the Egyptian one, such as the Greek Sphinx, the sphinx from the south and southeast asia. The Egyptian sphinx is typically shown as a man or, an androsphinx. In addition, the Egyptian sphinx was viewed as benevolent in contrast to the malevolent Greek version and was thought of as a guardian often flanking the entrances to temples. The largest and most famous sphinx is the Great Sphinx of Giza, sited at the Giza Plateau adjacent to the Great Pyramids of Giza on the west bank of the Nile River and facing due east. The sphinx is located in the north and below the pyramids. Although the date of its construction is uncertain, the head of the Great Sphinx now is believed to be that of the pharaoh Khafra.

Next, I am going to talk about The Great Pyramid Texts, hieroglyphs. Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The word hieroglyph comes from the Greek adjective (hieroglyphikos),[3] a compound of hier as in 'sacred'[4] and glph ' as in carve, or engrave',[5] in turn a calque of Egyptian 'god's words. Every upper passage, chamber, gallery and shaft inside the Great Pyramid of Giza is an incredibly old, unmistakable, megalithic Hieroglyph for the words seba and rut for "Ensouling Star door" and "Tunnel Opening gate." Besides that, Coffin Texts is also a form of ornamentation. The Coffin Texts are a collection of ancient Egyptian funerary spells written on coffins beginning in the First Intermediate Period. The texts are derived in part from the earlier pyramid texts, reserved for royal use only, but they contain substantial new material related to everyday desires that reflects the fact that the texts were now used by the common people. Ordinary Egyptians who could afford to have a coffin had access to these funerary

spells and the pharaoh no longer had exclusive rights to the afterlife.[1][2] As the modern name of this collection of some 1,185 spells implies, the texts are mostly found on Middle Kingdom coffins. However they are sometimes inscribed on tomb walls, and even mummy masks. The spells in the Coffin Texts allow the deceased to protect themselves against the dangers of the afterlife.